01 / CAMPAIGNS
Campaign leadership
Campaign planning, candidate support, voter contact, canvassing, volunteer leadership, GOTV, turnout operations, and election-cycle coordination across multiple states.
INDEPENDENT CAMPAIGN & MOVEMENT STRATEGY · NEW YORK
Bread & Roses
Project
Fear says nothing ever changes.Hope says watch us.
Campaigns, political strategy, and organizing that turn community priorities into action.
Campaign management, electoral field programs, fundraising, legislative advocacy, event production and movement building. Practical strategy, from the first plan through election day and beyond.
Bread for dignity.
Roses for a life worth living.
Progressive Campaign ManagementPolitical & Movement StrategyCoalition BuildingCommunity Advocacy
Our purpose
Bread, roses, and the power to win.
People deserve more than survival. They deserve dignity, opportunity, joy, safety, and a real voice in the decisions that shape their lives.
Founded by Christine Nicols, Bread & Roses Project brings campaign operations, public advocacy, and community organizing into one practice. It draws on work across electoral campaigns, grassroots protest, reproductive freedom, racial justice, immigrant rights, and coalition organizing in New York.
Our approach connects the practical work of campaigns with the long-term work of building power: listening to communities, developing leaders, creating clear messages, and turning shared demands into organized action.
What we do
What Bread & Roses does.
02 / MOVEMENTS
Grassroots organizing
Community mobilization, direct-action planning, issue campaigns, public demonstrations, and sustainable local organizing.
03 / SOLIDARITY
Coalition development
Connecting residents, organizers, labor allies, advocacy organizations, and community partners around shared goals.
04 / COMMUNICATIONS
Messaging & Media
Clear public narratives, press outreach, event communications, digital organizing, and materials that help people act.
05 / ADVOCACY
Rights & public policy
Organizing around reproductive freedom, racial and economic justice, immigrant rights, and an accountable democracy.
06 / BALLOT MEASURES
Ballot initiatives & access
Petition-circulation programs, signature gathering, field staffing, voter education, logistics, and ballot-access operations. California is one example from this area of work.
SELECTED WORK
Experience you can explore.
Political campaigns, ballot measures, legislative advocacy, nonprofits, public speaking and community organizing. Each section includes projects, people and documentary material.
CampaignsStrategy, fundraising, field programs, endorsements and political consultingBallot InitiativesCalifornia measures, voter conversations, signatures and field operationsAdvocacyAlbany, immigrant rights, climate, survivor protections and organizingNonprofitsHaiti, children, families and community partnershipsPress & SpeechesSpeaking engagements, public programs, training and reportingAboutMeet Christine and learn about Bread & Roses
Explore California ballot-measure work · Women's voting-rights history
The work in photographs
A record of action.
Selected documentary photographs from separate events and projects, with context and attribution where available.
The meaning behind our name
Why Bread & Roses?
Bread is what we need to survive: food, housing, healthcare, fair wages, and security. Roses are what we deserve beyond survival: dignity, joy, beauty, opportunity, and a meaningful voice in our future.
The phrase comes from the labor movement and is closely associated with the 1912 textile workers' strike in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Its message remains radical in its simplicity: people should not have to choose between making a living and having a life.
For the Bread & Roses Project, that means fighting for material change while building lasting community power. Not just a victory on Election Day, and never empty promises in place of results.
The Bread & Roses philosophy
Not empty promises.
Concrete change.
Too much of politics is designed to placate communities with reassuring words while leaving the structures that hurt them intact. We believe the measure of organizing is not whether people feel temporarily heard, but whether they gain a real say and see meaningful changes in their lives.
Fear says nothing ever changes.
Hope says watch us.
FOUNDER & PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Experience beyond a single campaign
Bread & Roses is informed by years of work across electoral campaigns, grassroots actions, public advocacy, event coordination, and direct support for children and families.
Campaigns & field operations
Campaign management, canvassing, voter contact, volunteer training, coalition coordination and turnout operations in New York and beyond.
Albany & issue advocacy
Working Families Party organizing, Tax the Rich and climate advocacy, legislative engagement, survivor-centered work and immigrant-rights efforts including Dignity Not Detention.
Events & public speaking
As a SWWPA co-chair, Christine helped organize more than 50 rallies, benefits, memorials and community events, coordinating speakers, performers, volunteers, venues, press and community partners.
Children, families & Haiti
Specialized child-behavior and family support, plus board service with Voice of the Children Foundation, a separate organization working with Haitian communities.
Founder & Principal
Christine Nicols
Campaign management · Community organizing · Coalition strategy · Event production
An experienced organizer and strategist focused on practical work, principled partnerships, and measurable progress.
Her work includes electoral and ballot-access campaigns, volunteer and field coordination, coalition relationships, public speaking, event planning, and issue-based organizing. She has also worked with advocates and legislators on voting rights, climate, survivor protections, immigrant rights, and public accountability.
Beyond political campaigns, Christine's experience includes child behavior support and arts-and-crafts programming. As a member of the Board of Directors of Voice of the Children Foundation, she supports community-centered work with children and families in Haiti. Her immigrant-rights advocacy also includes assistance with asylum declarations and rapid-response organizing.
Based in New York and working across communities and campaigns.
FOLLOW & CONNECT
Keep in touch with the work.
Christine on LinkedIn
Campaign strategy, public advocacy, nonprofit experience and event production.
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Projects, public actions, events and photographs.
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For political consulting, campaign management, advocacy collaborations, fundraising, speaking engagements or event production, get in touch.